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INTERVIEW: Zoe Leigh On Unlawful Issues In Chicago, U.S. Migrant Crisis, Uncomfortable Lifestyle Brand + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious,
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Speaker 2: Charlamagne to God. We are the Breakfast Club. We got
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Speaker 2: a special guest in the building. We got Zoe Lay Welcome.
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Speaker 2: That'sa your last name, right, Lee Lee, Zoe Lee. How
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Speaker 2: you feeling.
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Speaker 1: I'm well, thank you, Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming, thanks for joining us. You got your
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Speaker 2: folder out, like you got stuff to talk about today,
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Speaker 2: like you're not coming to play.
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Speaker 3: There's not too many people I like to watch more
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Speaker 3: on Instagram because you know, we always had these conversations
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Speaker 3: about you got to be involved, you know, with your
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Speaker 3: local politics, and you know, you got to be on
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Speaker 3: top of your local government. Zoe be at these city
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Speaker 3: council meetings in Chicago every week, every week, raising holy hell,
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Speaker 3: Holy hell. So I want her to talk about all
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Speaker 3: of that. What happened between you and the City of Chicago,
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Speaker 3: the whole city.
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Speaker 4: Huh yeah, the whole city. So in twenty seventeen, the
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Speaker 4: City of Chicago elected officials the Building Department unlawfully demolished
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Speaker 4: my family's property. And that is the violation of the
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Speaker 4: Fifth Amendment. And the City Chicago manipulates the Fifth Amendment
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Speaker 4: because they say that it really wasn't the Fifth Amendment
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Speaker 4: because there wasn't a roadway or there wasn't a railroad,
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Speaker 4: so technically it's not that. But then they have demolition laws,
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Speaker 4: and demolition laws is you still have to compensate the person,
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Speaker 4: and we have yet to be compensated.
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Speaker 2: Now now for people that this is all over the country.
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Speaker 2: So to break it down in simple terms, if you
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Speaker 2: own a property, the city cannot just take your property
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Speaker 2: unless they say they have to build a roadway, a
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Speaker 2: highway or something like that, or some type of public
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Speaker 2: transportation to get people from left to right, whether it's
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Speaker 2: a train system, subway system, or something like that, but
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Speaker 2: they're not allowed to take it. If they do, they're
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Speaker 2: supposed to give you market value for your property or home.
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Speaker 2: We see it happening all the time. But they didn't
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Speaker 2: give you anything. And you're saying there was no subway
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Speaker 2: or highway or trade system or nothing like that there.
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Speaker 2: So why did they say they demolished the property.
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Speaker 1: They said building violations.
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Speaker 4: And it's crazy because my mother was fixing up as
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Speaker 4: a commercial property. At that commercial property at the bottom,
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Speaker 4: it's four apartments at the top and my mother was
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Speaker 4: working on it. And how we found out that the
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Speaker 4: building was unlawfully demolished was the electrician.
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Speaker 1: He called.
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Speaker 4: He said, hey, miss marsh the building isn't here, and
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Speaker 4: my mother called the city.
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Speaker 2: They had no information, but you owned so you didn't
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Speaker 2: even know they were going to demol it. They didn't
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Speaker 2: tell you that they were going to demolish the building.
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Speaker 2: They just you just drove by one. The building wasn't anything.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the electrician that's crazy, and said that it was
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Speaker 4: no longer there. So my mother at the time, she's
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Speaker 4: seventy three, She's like, no, they're not you know, they're
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Speaker 4: not supposed to do that. So she went, you know,
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Speaker 4: down the city hall. She spoke to the law department.
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Speaker 4: They really couldn't give her any information, but one person
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Speaker 4: in a law department told her to go get a
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Speaker 4: police report. So she did go back and get a
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Speaker 4: police report, and then they told her to file a claim.
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Speaker 4: She filed the claim and they said that the reason
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Speaker 4: why we weren't paid out was because of building violations.
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Speaker 4: And I said, well, where are the building violations? You
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Speaker 4: have to go to buildings Court, you have to go
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Speaker 4: through a whole lot of stuff. You just can't knock
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Speaker 4: down a building. And come to find out, my mother
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Speaker 4: was fighting this by herself. At that time, I was
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Speaker 4: managing and I was working, doing my own thing, and
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Speaker 4: I kept telling my mom.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you know, just get a lawyer. And
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Speaker 1: in Chicago they have it.
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Speaker 4: Well, you can't get an attorney. You can't get in
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Speaker 4: the black communities. They what they have done is they
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Speaker 4: prey on Black seniors. They play on our communities and
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Speaker 4: on buildings and properties that are already paid off, so
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Speaker 4: not mortgages. And that's what I think a lot of
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Speaker 4: people don't understand. You know, you own a home, but
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Speaker 4: if you're still paying a mortgage, do you really own
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Speaker 4: the home? You know, these homes are already been paid.
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Speaker 4: This has been in my family since nineteen sixty five. Okay,
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Speaker 4: it's a Sam pipe of lounge. It was it was
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Speaker 4: a landmark before that. It was Fanny made candies.
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Speaker 2: You know. So there was no there was no tennis.
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Speaker 2: They didn't have to take nobody.
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Speaker 1: No, no, My godfather was living in there.
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Speaker 4: They told him he had ten minutes to get out
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Speaker 4: and he's eighty, you know, ten minutes to get out
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Speaker 4: and he's eighty now, min you they don't have social media,
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Speaker 4: they don't, you know. And then at the time, the
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Speaker 4: only attorneys that you can get for stuff like eminent
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Speaker 4: domain or them stealing our properties. It's two. It was
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Speaker 4: two and it was a Vodoliac. It's Vadoliac and ed
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Speaker 4: Burd Now they both have been convicted of stealing properties.
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Speaker 4: Like they're both like we're alder men at the time.
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Speaker 4: So Chicago has a thing that no matter what, you're
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Speaker 4: not gonna get no justice, Like Chicago's one of the
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Speaker 4: most corrupt cities on earth. And they put my mother
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Speaker 4: in the hospital twice. So I had to leave Atlanta,
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Speaker 4: put myself in storage, and I've been fighting ever since. Now,
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Speaker 4: mind you, while I'm fighting, I'm dealing with this immigration
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Speaker 4: invasion that's coming in. I have other black seniors that
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Speaker 4: are coming down to city to city council as well,
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Speaker 4: because they're still in their properties too. And it's only
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Speaker 4: in certain areas. It's in tiff districts. Now New York
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Speaker 4: is the difftrict district.
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Speaker 1: Or the unitsity.
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Speaker 4: You know what that is, noct it's tax increment finance,
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Speaker 4: So they're supposed to give you money in blighted areas
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Speaker 4: and predominantly black areas, and they're supposed to help you
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Speaker 4: build your community up, but.
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Speaker 2: The month tax breaks things like that, they want to
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Speaker 2: encourage more people in the community to invest back in
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Speaker 2: the community.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and what they're doing is they're taking the money.
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Speaker 4: You call it a piggy bank, and they're now they're
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Speaker 4: giving it to predominantly white areas. And now Hispanic areas
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Speaker 4: and our black areas are not getting anything. But it's
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Speaker 4: in certain areas. Englewood, my property was in Auburn. Grissom
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Speaker 4: Shouse or South Shore is the only black area still
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Speaker 4: in Chicago that's by Lake Michigan. Everybody knows about summertime shot.
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Speaker 4: So they're taking our properties. You can't get any help,
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Speaker 4: you can't get any media, you know. And I'm not
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Speaker 4: from Chicago. My mother's from Chicago. My mother left there
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Speaker 4: in nineteen seventy eight because it was so racist. I'm
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Speaker 4: from Albany, New York, and I just fight different. You know.
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Speaker 4: When I first started this, everybody was like, Oh, you're
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Speaker 4: gonna need one hundred people, and I'm like, nah, because
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Speaker 4: everybody it's different times, different generation. Everybody not gonna fight
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Speaker 4: like me, you know, and I've always been that person
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Speaker 4: that question to challenge. I know how to read. We
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Speaker 4: have to know our constitution. A lot of people do
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Speaker 4: not know the US Constitution.
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Speaker 5: Know.
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Speaker 2: The crazy thing is, if you had squatters in it,
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Speaker 2: it probably would have took them a lot longer to
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Speaker 2: get it out because a lot of times squatters have
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Speaker 2: more right than the actual homeowners and business owners. Let
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Speaker 2: me ask you a question. I know when they said
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Speaker 2: to violations, I know a lot of times, especially the government,
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Speaker 2: what they do is is they'll give you violations, like
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Speaker 2: they say you had trash on your property, they'll give
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Speaker 2: you a ticket for that. Was was that part of
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Speaker 2: the violations? Things like that now they're.
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Speaker 4: Giving us were still on the land, so now they're
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Speaker 4: giving us violation for that. No, it was they said
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Speaker 4: it was abandon It wasn't a band.
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Speaker 2: And then they do that if the doors are not
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Speaker 2: locked or the windows broken.
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Speaker 4: Basically abandoned. That was the main thing. They said that
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Speaker 4: one of the doors was messed up. It was not
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Speaker 4: messed up.
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Speaker 1: It's yes.
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Speaker 4: So they wanted that property. They wanted that property because
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Speaker 4: it was in a tiff zone. And they continue to
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Speaker 4: do this and they do it they pray on seniors.
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Speaker 2: I've heard that before. What is what is the property worth?
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Speaker 2: What would be the value of the property if it
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Speaker 2: was and everything.
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Speaker 4: Probably about ten to fifteen million, wow, And it has
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Speaker 4: to be it would have to be more than that
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Speaker 4: because you would have to also count in the fact
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Speaker 4: that if you had tenants and you had a rent. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: especially now with this immigration situation, like you know, like
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Speaker 4: that's one thing my mother said, like, damn, if we
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Speaker 4: had the building, we'd be able to house because they're
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Speaker 4: giving so much money out, you know, so the rent
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Speaker 4: rent is expensive.
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Speaker 1: Like the fact that the fact that I have.
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Speaker 4: To pay rent a month when I have four apartments
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Speaker 4: and a commercial property. I have a lot, I have
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Speaker 4: my own brand. I'm into comedy, I'm in a lot
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Speaker 4: of uncomfortable truth lifestyle. My model is paper pussy Piece,
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Speaker 4: you know.
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Speaker 5: And to man is Dick Gregory.
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Speaker 4: And I just I just feel like I am like
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Speaker 4: I'm just not being I'm being heard, but I'm shadow
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Speaker 4: band as well, because at the end of the day,
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Speaker 4: this is a thing that happens in Chicago. And if
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Speaker 4: I get heard or if you know, thank you. I
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Speaker 4: appreciate you guys for letting me on this platform because
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Speaker 4: Chicago's scared, you know, and they're scared because they know
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Speaker 4: this is what they do.
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Speaker 1: We have one.
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Speaker 4: Hundred and ten Illinois state black representation in Congress and
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Speaker 4: they don't do anything. And this is a democratic city.
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Speaker 4: So you know when people talk about democrats, you know
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Speaker 4: how the democracy and how they cared Chicago different.
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Speaker 2: So what what are they say in the building is
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Speaker 2: worth and what are they saying or they just saying, well,
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Speaker 2: we just molished f you and your family.
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Speaker 4: That they were not under the impression that we owned it.
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Speaker 4: So that is one of the arguments. And it's been
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Speaker 4: in a trust the whole time. So they went and
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Speaker 4: got a fraudulent document and said that, oh, a guy
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Speaker 4: named Timothy owns it. But the person Timothy is the
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Speaker 4: same person that So back in the day when you
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Speaker 4: would get deeds from like it was LaSalle Bank, the
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Speaker 4: South Bank is now Bank of America. The the the
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Speaker 4: they nominated some they nominate somebody, and the person who
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Speaker 4: they nominates usually a bachelor or a wider. So they
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Speaker 4: so back then the deeds would have this name on
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Speaker 4: there that the bank nominated. So they're trying to use
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Speaker 4: that as this is the person that owned it, and
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Speaker 4: it's like, no, we own it. It's Timothy, Timothy, Timothy
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Speaker 4: ninety and no, no, Timothy's dead. First of all, Okay,
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Speaker 4: that's not one. And number two is that's what they
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Speaker 4: used to do back in the day, Like if you
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Speaker 4: look up how they used to do it. So the
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Speaker 4: thing is, my mom's seventy five, my godfather's eighty. They're
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Speaker 4: not supposed to, you know, they just take our properties
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Speaker 4: and they're going to continue to do it if no
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Speaker 4: one does not fight for it and we get some legislation.
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Speaker 3: So when you're down there at you know, the city
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Speaker 3: council meetings, are you alone in this fight?
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Speaker 5: Are there other people that's experiencing like a legal Yeah.
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Speaker 4: There's a lady named miss Well. She's not experiencing legal
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Speaker 4: eminent domain. She's experiencing they're trying. Her name is Jessica Jackson.
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Speaker 4: She they're taking they're trying to take her property through
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Speaker 4: probate court. Now, her mother had no debt. Her mother
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Speaker 4: left the three family building in south Shore. South Shore
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Speaker 4: is still only one of the places that black people
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Speaker 4: have for the lake, and they're trying to take her property.
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Speaker 4: And that's and she said, you know that's when that's
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Speaker 4: that has been paid off since she was sixteen.
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Speaker 1: She's sixty one.
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Speaker 2: So who's the because you know it's it's the somebody
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Speaker 2: behind it, right, So I'm sure it's some white men
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Speaker 2: that get nothing, or it could be black because that
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Speaker 2: happened to my parents in Brooklyn. So my parents had
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Speaker 2: a brown son in Brooklyn grip. My grandfather passed away,
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Speaker 2: left it down to it was like twelve of them,
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Speaker 2: and he finagled his way on the deed and then
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Speaker 2: was almost like part of the kids, part of that process.
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Speaker 2: And I see them do that a lot, especially when
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Speaker 2: they feel like people don't understand, don't know the laws,
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Speaker 2: and they get it in and they're able to get this script.
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Speaker 2: So have you figured out who's behind trying to buy
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Speaker 2: the script? Because somebody seems like they're.
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Speaker 4: Trying to develop her and that's what they do the
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Speaker 4: and you know, unfortunate, it's unfortunate, unfortunate, but our aldermen
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Speaker 4: make deals behind our back and for you know, paybacks
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Speaker 4: whatever they want to call it, and they promised our
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Speaker 4: properties to them, and you can't get any help, you know,
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Speaker 4: my mother, we have a federal core it's sort of
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Speaker 4: it's like pro sae. We do have an attorney, but
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Speaker 4: you know, I'm still you know, skeptical when it comes
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Speaker 4: to him because they pay out like they pay. But
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Speaker 4: there's a there's an act called Light Property Act nineteen
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Speaker 4: forty seven, nineteen forty nine and the Blighted Property Act
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Speaker 4: nineteen forty seven nineteen forty nine that a lot of
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Speaker 4: people don't talk about is even if they felt like
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Speaker 4: it was an abandoned building or they felt like it
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Speaker 4: was something wrong with it, they're supposed to go to
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Speaker 4: the governor, and the governor is supposed to ask the
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Speaker 4: Attorney General to imminent domain it, and you still have
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Speaker 4: to compensate. They don't do no law like no policies.
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Speaker 4: And I say this all the time, Chicago policies do
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Speaker 4: not trump the US Constitution. It is not trump federal laws.
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Speaker 4: And that's the problem I think with America, Like we
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Speaker 4: don't understand that the Constitution is for us, regardless of
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Speaker 4: what color we are.
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Speaker 5: What can be done now? Like what can be done
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Speaker 5: right now?
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Speaker 1: They can settle my case.
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Speaker 4: But I know the reason why they won't settle it,
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Speaker 4: I feel like is because it'll be.
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Speaker 1: A line down in Cook County and.
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Speaker 4: City Hall because they they black people have normalized that
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Speaker 4: this is just what Chicago do. Iago just steal properties,
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Speaker 4: you can't get no help.
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Speaker 3: It ain't just at Chicago, you know, he was doing
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Speaker 3: that in South Carolina, Detroit.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Atlanta, somebody's just send me something. In Atlanta, they're
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Speaker 4: doing it. So it has to be some type of legislation.
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Speaker 4: And that's my issue, like with this this election that's
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Speaker 4: coming up, like we need something. As far as Black America,
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Speaker 4: I don't know whatever you guys identify ass, because it's
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Speaker 4: like a pronoun situation if you're a freedman, freed woman, whatever,
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Speaker 4: you know, ady os whatever. But as me, I'm a
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Speaker 4: Black American. That's why I'm born and raised here my family.
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Speaker 4: You know, that's what I That's what I identify ass. But
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Speaker 4: there needs to be some type of legislation when it
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Speaker 4: comes to our housing, and it's no legislation.
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Speaker 2: So what are they trying to build there now? Because
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Speaker 2: they demolished it.
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Speaker 4: They tried to they tried to sell it behind our
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Speaker 4: back twice the land, but.
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Speaker 1: We were able to take care of it.
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Speaker 2: How do they sell it behind your back?
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Speaker 4: Because they played with d so you can go into
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Speaker 4: you can go to Cook County right now, right and
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Speaker 4: you you may know the guy and you may find
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Speaker 4: somebody that's a notary and you paid him something and
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Speaker 4: you say, hey.
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Speaker 2: This person signed. Yeah, how much is the property worth
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Speaker 2: right now as it sits? Well, there's no property, well,
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Speaker 2: just the land. How much is the landworth as it sits?
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Speaker 1: To me, it's three billion dollars?
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Speaker 2: Imagine it's three land.
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Speaker 1: It's land.
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Speaker 4: I need my money, I need I need. That's my
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Speaker 4: generational well.
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Speaker 5: Like the realistic number.
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Speaker 1: The realistic number.
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Speaker 4: I think probably about a million, but I think land
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Speaker 4: is worth probably a minimum million dollars. Yeah, it's it's big.
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Speaker 4: First of all, it was ten lots they took. They
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Speaker 4: already took six of the lots and only left us
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Speaker 4: with four lots. The lots behind us is all lots too,
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Speaker 4: but they put a save a lot there, so paying all. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: this is just what they did. They put up and
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Speaker 4: it's not even there no more. They put a business
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Speaker 4: on your property. Yes, they took half the lots and
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Speaker 4: we have a parking lot. So like I write save
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Speaker 4: a lot like every month and let them know. Play
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Speaker 4: with me if you want to, because I'm not playing
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Speaker 4: with y'all, Like, y'all, this is this is not what
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Speaker 4: you guys do, Like this is not I don't know what.
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Speaker 2: I'm so confused. I really don't know how people could
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Speaker 2: build on a piece of property that they don't have
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Speaker 2: a deed.
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Speaker 4: On Chicago do whatever they want to do, and it's
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Speaker 4: and it's a cycle. Like I was talking to somebody
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Speaker 4: the other day, she says she's been fighting for her
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Speaker 4: grandmother's properties since nineteen sixty two. I mean it's been her,
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Speaker 4: it's been her house is nineteen sixty two. She's been
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Speaker 4: fighting for ten years, and she said she just gave up.
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Speaker 2: This might be a funny question, but where's the elected officials?
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Speaker 5: Right?
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Speaker 2: There's no elected still.
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Speaker 4: In stealing money, still in this immigration money Jesus, Like,
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Speaker 4: that's that's the problem too. We have to change the
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Speaker 4: culture of these politicians because they both trash.
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Speaker 1: On both sides.
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Speaker 4: You know, the Republicans is terrible, the Democrats is terrible.
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Speaker 4: But the issue with Chicago is Chicago's turned to a
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Speaker 4: communist city.
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Speaker 1: Like it's only Democrats.
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Speaker 4: You cannot even if you want to run as a Republican,
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Speaker 4: you're not gonna win.
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Speaker 1: They have it as just democrats.
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Speaker 2: So what what names can people go at? Because you
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Speaker 2: just can't.
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Speaker 4: Say the City of Chicago got to be Marlene Hopkins.
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Speaker 4: That's the Building Department with her date.
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Speaker 2: Let's go one by one explain what that person does
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Speaker 2: and how they involved so people understand.
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Speaker 1: Okay, because you got to break it.
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Speaker 2: Down because a lot of people will be confused, like me, like,
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Speaker 2: how how the hell does this even happen?
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Speaker 4: Okay, So you got Marlon Hopkins. Marlon Hopkins is now
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Speaker 4: the commissioner of the Buildings Department.
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Speaker 1: She should have been fired when.
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Speaker 4: There was this little village explosion back three years ago
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Speaker 4: when she was negligent with that. So what happens is
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Speaker 4: anybody one of her friends or I'll say my aldermen
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Speaker 4: alderman David Moore, can call up and say, hey, I
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Speaker 4: need you to put this in for the building's apartment,
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Speaker 4: say that it was building violations, that's why we demolished it,
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Speaker 4: and people go with that instead of knowing like you
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Speaker 4: have to go to building's court. Now, my mother received
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Speaker 4: a voicemail from the law Department and they gave her
17:19
Speaker 4: three options. The first option was that she was supposed
17:22
Speaker 4: that our Alderman, which was David Moore the seventeenth ward
17:26
Speaker 4: was supposed to reach out to us and offer us
17:28
Speaker 4: some type of money. Conversation, had conversation. He was supposed
17:32
Speaker 4: to go through the chairman of the City of Finance,
17:34
Speaker 4: and at that time it was ed Ed Burke is
17:36
Speaker 4: now convicted. He's eighty years old now convicted of taking
17:41
Speaker 4: bribes and taking property. Then you have the next one
17:46
Speaker 4: was file a claim. We filed acclaim with the city.
17:50
Speaker 4: Now the city said that my mother's claim it expired
17:55
Speaker 4: and it did not expire the statute of limitations. That
17:57
Speaker 4: the statue of limitations for Illinois for any type of claim,
18:03
Speaker 4: it's two years. And they told my mom that she
18:06
Speaker 4: didn't get her claiming in time. They knocked the building
18:09
Speaker 4: down December eleventh, twenty seventeen. Right my mother put the
18:13
Speaker 4: claim in October fourth, two thoy eighteen. They gave us
18:20
Speaker 4: back a letter December eleventh to eighty and I got
18:22
Speaker 4: everything that says that the claim was not put in time,
18:26
Speaker 4: and that it does the statute ofations expired. That's insurance frog,
18:30
Speaker 4: that's bad faith, insurance frocks. My mother put it in.
18:33
Speaker 4: So then when my mother went to hire a lawyer.
18:35
Speaker 4: They told the lawyer the same thing, and a lawyer
18:37
Speaker 4: put it in on the letterhead like, look, they're saying,
18:40
Speaker 4: the statute of limitations had expired. However, you still have
18:46
Speaker 4: time to file a lawsuit. My mother filed the lawsuit.
18:50
Speaker 4: And when my mother filed a lawsuit, they still try
18:53
Speaker 4: to deny the lawsuit because they said, well, we don't
18:55
Speaker 4: know who owns it. You know who owns it, you
18:58
Speaker 4: know who owned you know who owns it. Now we're
19:00
Speaker 4: fighting with the ownership part.
19:03
Speaker 1: Now.
19:03
Speaker 4: They put in a fraudlent deed this but they didn't
19:07
Speaker 4: record it. What they did was they went and got
19:09
Speaker 4: a stamp of the person who was the recorder of
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Speaker 4: deeds at that time. His name was Edward Moody.
19:15
Speaker 1: Edward Moody.
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Speaker 4: He went and got he got He was on trial
19:21
Speaker 4: for Steve for Michael Madigan. Michael Madigan is about to
19:24
Speaker 4: be on trial. He was an They all ain't ships.
19:30
Speaker 4: It's it's public corruption. It's just big public corruption. There's
19:33
Speaker 4: Tony Preckwinkle, who is the Cook County president who needs
19:37
Speaker 4: to retire, and anybody can go up to the second floor,
19:42
Speaker 4: the fifth floor and change out deeds and you can't
19:46
Speaker 4: get no help.
19:47
Speaker 2: It really seems like big bank take little bank, right,
19:50
Speaker 2: because the amount of money I'm hearing that you have
19:52
Speaker 2: to pay attorneys.
19:54
Speaker 5: Yes, but you said you can't even get in the turn.
19:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they don't want to touch this case because
20:00
Speaker 4: this first of all, you know, uncomfortable truth is I'm black.
20:04
Speaker 1: You know my family's black. There's number two.
20:07
Speaker 4: Number three is but number two is Chicago is still
20:10
Speaker 4: one of the most segregated cities in America, and they
20:15
Speaker 4: work with each other.
20:16
Speaker 1: We have no civil rights attorneys. There's no civil rights attorneys.
20:21
Speaker 1: I know, I don't.
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Speaker 4: I don't even fuck with being crump. You know I'm
20:23
Speaker 4: saying what I'm saying, like there's no civil rights attorneys.
20:26
Speaker 4: I reached out to being crump.
20:27
Speaker 1: We don't have. The only time we have civil rights
20:29
Speaker 1: attorneys is.
20:30
Speaker 4: If we get killed. Okay, I call it the hashtag package.
20:33
Speaker 4: I gotta get killed in order to get a civil
20:37
Speaker 4: rights attorney, in order to get some type of compensation
20:41
Speaker 4: and some type of justice.
20:42
Speaker 1: And some media.
20:43
Speaker 4: I gotta go, Why do I have to get killed
20:46
Speaker 4: or my family member has to get killed in order
20:49
Speaker 4: for me to find a civil rights attorney and that's
20:52
Speaker 4: the problem. Our civil rights are being violated on the
20:54
Speaker 4: regular and we cannot find any attorneys. So for this
20:59
Speaker 4: election coming up up, and you've got all these people
21:01
Speaker 4: that want us to the Democrat, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, the
21:04
Speaker 4: Democrats is fucking me over in Chicago. You know, we
21:08
Speaker 4: have the most representation in black Democrats. And I can't
21:12
Speaker 4: get no help. Even they'll tell us, you know, the
21:15
Speaker 4: aldermen and stuff, you need to get a lawyer. How
21:17
Speaker 4: the fuck can I get a lawyer? There's a civil
21:19
Speaker 4: rights attorney, Matt Martin, he is an alderman. You're a
21:22
Speaker 4: civil rights attorney. You see me coming in there every week.
21:27
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter that you can find somebody, you know.
21:30
Speaker 4: You're like, like, it's just it's just messed up.
21:33
Speaker 1: Like you're hearing this. You're hearing this, but you're.
21:36
Speaker 4: Fighting for affordable housing. Like how do you fight for
21:39
Speaker 4: affordable housing as a as a civil rights attorney, as
21:42
Speaker 4: an alderman, as.
21:42
Speaker 1: A public servant? Right?
21:45
Speaker 4: But you see three people coming down there about their
21:48
Speaker 4: properties for a year and you have nothing to say.
21:51
Speaker 2: How can people help you if they want to get
21:53
Speaker 2: in touch with you, Let's say they want to help
21:54
Speaker 2: let's say there is a way they know a civil attorney.
21:58
Speaker 2: Maybe that is a real estate attorney that can help you.
22:00
Speaker 2: How can people help it, oh, even financially, say look,
22:02
Speaker 2: I want to throw some money in your thing to
22:03
Speaker 2: make you support because this is gonna be a long fight.
22:05
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a costly fight. How can they help you.
22:07
Speaker 4: Well, I have a brand, y'all can purchase a shirt.
22:10
Speaker 4: I'mcomfortabletruthlifestyle dot com. My instagram is mister steal your Wig
22:16
Speaker 4: at gmail dot com. And I have my mother as
22:20
Speaker 4: a nonprofit. It's Notre Dame Affordable Housing and it's n
22:26
Speaker 4: d a h I n C dot com online and
22:31
Speaker 4: she just really wants to build her building back, like
22:33
Speaker 4: until this is settled, because we've been waiting over one
22:37
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty days. I argue this case November first.
22:41
Speaker 4: I was able to argue this case to the judge,
22:43
Speaker 4: and the judge was so surprised, you know, because I'm
22:48
Speaker 4: not a lawyer. But this I know how to read,
22:51
Speaker 4: I know how to comprehend, and I know that this
22:53
Speaker 4: is not what's up. And I know that there's too
22:56
Speaker 4: much money out here in the government in a mayor,
22:59
Speaker 4: our paying dollar that I have to continue to fight
23:03
Speaker 4: and not get no justice.
23:04
Speaker 3: You know, it's also interesting too because uh, you know,
23:07
Speaker 3: I follow her, I follow you, and I saw not
23:11
Speaker 3: just this fight, but what you've been saying about the migrants.
23:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Margarets.
23:14
Speaker 4: They spent too, Like I know, doctor Umar was here
23:17
Speaker 4: and he was saying that they spent over four hundred million.
23:19
Speaker 1: No, they spent two point two billion.
23:21
Speaker 4: And I have it like I got all of it,
23:23
Speaker 4: like I have been keeping like records like it's two
23:28
Speaker 4: point two billion dollars.
23:30
Speaker 3: And I was saying all of this back in January
23:32
Speaker 3: because of the activists like Zoe, but also because of
23:34
Speaker 3: who we talk to here in New York, what we
23:35
Speaker 3: see in New York going on. And when I'm bringing
23:37
Speaker 3: up these issues, people say it was maga messaging.
23:40
Speaker 5: It's not maga messaging. Black people in this industry.
23:44
Speaker 4: Now, we are at a like honestly, like like all
23:47
Speaker 4: jose aside, we are at a race of emergency when
23:49
Speaker 4: it comes to Black America whatever you call yourself, because
23:52
Speaker 4: I don't that's another argue to the moors and stuff
23:55
Speaker 4: they want.
23:55
Speaker 1: I don't want to argue with y'all.
23:57
Speaker 4: But whoever, then, black people we are at a race
24:00
Speaker 4: of emergency when it comes to these immigrants, and that's
24:03
Speaker 4: just what it is.
24:04
Speaker 1: We give our vote.
24:06
Speaker 4: And I'm just saying, I'm not saying vote for whoever you
24:08
Speaker 4: want to vote, but we continue to vote blue and
24:12
Speaker 4: we do not get anything. We just watched George Floyd, right,
24:15
Speaker 4: get killed in front of us. We just watched Sonya Massey,
24:19
Speaker 4: that's an Illinois just get killed in front of us,
24:21
Speaker 4: and we still do not have a hate crime bill. Now,
24:24
Speaker 4: the Asians then got a hate crime bill during COVID. Okay,
24:28
Speaker 4: the Jews anti Semitism, they just gotta they just that
24:31
Speaker 4: just passed through Congress. So how many times do we
24:34
Speaker 4: have to get killed to get some type of legislation.
24:36
Speaker 4: But we continue to vote blue, and if we don't vote, it's.
24:39
Speaker 1: Turned to a cult.
24:40
Speaker 4: I'm thirty eight years old, right, and I have common sense,
24:43
Speaker 4: and I think this is the election of common sense. Okay,
24:47
Speaker 4: we just watched we have I'm watching our our I'm
24:50
Speaker 4: going to these meetings, right. Finance meeting is very important.
24:54
Speaker 4: The budget meeting is very important. Housing in real estate
24:56
Speaker 4: is very important in your local your local state. And
25:01
Speaker 4: you're watching all this money being passed. Right, You're watching
25:06
Speaker 4: all this money being passed for housing, for resources. They're
25:10
Speaker 4: using our statistics like we're the highest in everything, shooting,
25:14
Speaker 4: we even get hit by bicycles, like.
25:16
Speaker 1: How to bicycles? Like you know what I'm saying, Like
25:20
Speaker 1: you where we're for everything? Right? So you get this
25:22
Speaker 1: money and then none of it goes to our community.
25:26
Speaker 1: Where's the money at? Where is the all? Where's IRS
25:29
Speaker 1: Criminal Division?
25:30
Speaker 4: Like there was in nineteen eighty four in Chicago there
25:33
Speaker 4: was something called Operation Grade Lord, Operation Gray Lord is
25:36
Speaker 4: when they went and got they picked up judges, they
25:39
Speaker 4: picked up police officers, lawyers, all that for all the corruption, right,
25:44
Speaker 4: and it needs to be another Operation gradye Lord, but
25:46
Speaker 4: this time with the city and.
25:48
Speaker 1: But the IRS.
25:49
Speaker 4: The IRS was involved, the fans were involved because IRS
25:53
Speaker 4: Criminal Division needs to be involved because there's too many
25:56
Speaker 4: people sleeping on the street, migrants as well. For you
26:00
Speaker 4: to have two point two billion dollars, you're spending seven
26:02
Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars a month, I mean seven hundred thousand
26:05
Speaker 4: dollars a day on shelters.
26:07
Speaker 1: Where is this money at?
26:08
Speaker 4: You're dumping these undocumented immigrants in our communities that are
26:12
Speaker 4: already under resource. You're pushing us out. There's been mass
26:16
Speaker 4: illegal evictions, right, and they're not even putting that online.
26:19
Speaker 4: They're not even putting that on the news because they
26:22
Speaker 4: get more money with the illegals, you know.
26:25
Speaker 1: So like we're messed up, and this is our election.
26:28
Speaker 4: So like my thing is, people will say, oh, you
26:31
Speaker 4: know Trump is racist, the Republicans are racist.
26:35
Speaker 1: Well let's get into the Democratic party.
26:37
Speaker 4: Like when the last time y'all really did something for us,
26:40
Speaker 4: Like when I talk even about crack epidemic, every person
26:43
Speaker 4: that was that that family member or a main guardian
26:47
Speaker 4: was on crack. Every child should have been able to
26:50
Speaker 4: go to school for free. Like that messed us up.
26:53
Speaker 4: We prevailed, We prevailed slavery, the race riots, Jim Crow, crack,
27:00
Speaker 4: mass incarceration. Now we're dealing with illegal, invasive illegal immigrants.
27:04
Speaker 4: Y'all have all this money, you know, and they go
27:07
Speaker 4: back and forth. Well it was a Republican, it's a Democrat. Well,
27:10
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, you know, Kamala, like
27:13
Speaker 4: there was an executive order, the Executive Order one four
27:15
Speaker 4: zero one zero that was issued by President Biden, but
27:18
Speaker 4: she was supposed to oversee when it came to these
27:22
Speaker 4: immigrants coming over here from South America and stuff like that,
27:25
Speaker 4: Like if and I understand you the Vice president, Well,
27:28
Speaker 4: who did you have to help you oversea? Because I'm
27:30
Speaker 4: an I've been an assistant. I've been assistant to Killer Mike,
27:33
Speaker 4: I've been I've been managed. I've been a management manager
27:36
Speaker 4: to Dig Gregory and assistant and when they need me
27:38
Speaker 4: to do something, I go ahead and do it. So
27:40
Speaker 4: if you put somebody else in charge, they just opened
27:44
Speaker 4: up the border on our asses, you know, understanding.
27:46
Speaker 1: But then when in twenty twenty one, when the Haitiens
27:48
Speaker 1: was trying to come over.
27:49
Speaker 4: Here, they was pushing them back. So you got to
27:51
Speaker 4: keep the same energy. And but you find all this
27:54
Speaker 4: money two point two billion dollars seven hundred thousand dollars
27:58
Speaker 4: a day on my grand shelters. But we're supposed to
28:02
Speaker 4: continue to vote the way that we vote.
28:05
Speaker 1: No, what are you going to give us? We need legislation.
28:07
Speaker 1: We need a hate crime bill today.
28:10
Speaker 4: You know, people keep talking about, oh Trump wants to
28:12
Speaker 4: give immunity to police.
28:13
Speaker 1: Police already have immunity.
28:15
Speaker 4: Look at your look at your look at your your
28:18
Speaker 4: your US, look at the constitution, look at the civil
28:20
Speaker 4: rights that will be violated.
28:22
Speaker 1: I sued Delta by myself. Okay, I have my shirt
28:25
Speaker 1: on papersy.
28:26
Speaker 4: Piece and they said, oh, you can't have that on
28:28
Speaker 4: da da da da. Show me in a policy where
28:30
Speaker 4: I can have it. Show me in a posse where
28:32
Speaker 4: I can have I wont twenty thousand dollars.
28:35
Speaker 2: Okay, but they made me take on my hat one day.
28:38
Speaker 2: That's why I said. I had said sex and it
28:40
Speaker 2: made me take Yeah.
28:41
Speaker 1: But there's no policy.
28:42
Speaker 4: Just like how they telling people that they can't wear
28:44
Speaker 4: the Palestine flag the employees. What like, what happened to
28:48
Speaker 4: freedom of speech? It's twenty twenty four, Like it's twenty
28:51
Speaker 4: twenty four. We're not living in nineteen hundreds. We're not
28:54
Speaker 4: living in nineteen oh one. Like this is crazy. So
28:57
Speaker 4: my thing is I've always said we I have a
28:59
Speaker 4: black agenda. We don't have a black agenda. I have
29:01
Speaker 4: a black agenda. And my thing is we need where
29:03
Speaker 4: it's supposed to be. Twelve percent of America is black, right,
29:07
Speaker 4: we need twelve percent jobs, we need twelve percent of contracts,
29:10
Speaker 4: we need twelve percent. And if they if neither one
29:13
Speaker 4: of these parties can give us twelve percent, what are
29:15
Speaker 4: we voting for because people say, oh, our ancestors die
29:18
Speaker 4: for this.
29:19
Speaker 1: Our ancestors. Our ancestor is looking at us like, bitch,
29:21
Speaker 1: what are y'all doing? I know for sure Dick Gregory
29:25
Speaker 1: is not like, yeah, just continue to vote because you
29:27
Speaker 1: just want to vote. Yeah, just continue to ote. No, Like,
29:29
Speaker 1: what the fuck is you gonna give us? Give up?
29:31
Speaker 1: We don't have Our kids are are beating what's that?
29:36
Speaker 1: What's that game? That video game? Mind graphs, the other one,
29:41
Speaker 1: call of Duty? They beaties in a day. Why don't
29:45
Speaker 1: we have video.
29:46
Speaker 4: Game developing developers or any thing like that in our communities.
29:51
Speaker 4: Why don't we have any STEM programs in our community?
29:54
Speaker 4: Apps y'all are making they making a killing off of
29:57
Speaker 4: us on on Instagram. Do you see how much the
30:00
Speaker 4: pennies that we get in social media, the pennies.
30:03
Speaker 1: That we're getting. Why don't we have our own social media?
30:06
Speaker 4: And I know fan base, but fan base, well, I'm
30:09
Speaker 4: just saying like that, we don't have we don't have
30:11
Speaker 4: the resources. But we are the bank of America, we
30:15
Speaker 4: are the culture of America. We are America, and we
30:19
Speaker 4: continue to get penny I'm tired of it. The black
30:23
Speaker 4: the Democratic agenda is the LGBTQ agenda, and I'm I'm
30:27
Speaker 4: part of it, but that's a white agenda, okay, abortions
30:31
Speaker 4: as well, in immigration, Okay. The Republicans is these extreme
30:36
Speaker 4: crazy Christian reviews when it comes to, you know, the
30:41
Speaker 4: women's rights, and my thing is women rights should be
30:44
Speaker 4: off the table. There's no way in the world that
30:46
Speaker 4: they should be arguing back and forth. And that's our fault,
30:48
Speaker 4: you know. And we continue to allow little things like
30:52
Speaker 4: how we let Bruce Jenner what was his named? Kaitlyn
30:55
Speaker 4: Jenner be Woman of the Year? What the fuck was
30:58
Speaker 4: wrong with us? What the fuck was wrong with us? Yeah, like,
31:03
Speaker 4: none of this makes any sense, and this is common sense.
31:07
Speaker 4: Pretty soon the Democratic Party. Men ain't gonna have no voice.
31:11
Speaker 4: Y'all can't say ship if y'all say anything, Here come
31:14
Speaker 4: a rape charge, Here come a hole like groupies. Group
31:17
Speaker 4: has been out here, hole has been out here, and
31:19
Speaker 4: they're gonna continue side bitches for life.
31:21
Speaker 1: They're never going nowhere.
31:24
Speaker 5: Let's bring it now. How can people help you with
31:29
Speaker 5: your illegal I need a civil.
31:32
Speaker 4: Rights attorney, and and I and I and I feel
31:34
Speaker 4: like it. A civil rights attorney. There's plenty of other
31:39
Speaker 4: people that do need help out there. But there's a
31:41
Speaker 4: legal foreclosers. They're stealing properties through taxing through delinquent taxes,
31:47
Speaker 4: but it's really not delinquent. But yeah, I need an attorney.
31:52
Speaker 4: I need an attorney that that's not scared to go
31:55
Speaker 4: up against the.
31:56
Speaker 5: City comfortable giving out of something.
31:58
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, l E I g h z O E
32:03
Speaker 4: two three at gmail dot com.
32:05
Speaker 2: Wezoe. We appreciate you joining us and keep us abreast
32:08
Speaker 2: of what's going on.
32:08
Speaker 3: And I hope, I hope, just you know, just providing
32:11
Speaker 3: this platform gets the word out because like I said,
32:13
Speaker 3: I've been watching you fight this fight for a long
32:15
Speaker 3: time on IG.
32:17
Speaker 4: So I thank you so much. You do not even
32:20
Speaker 4: understand like you were the first. I've reached out to
32:23
Speaker 4: plenty of other black journalists, black influencers, and people are
32:27
Speaker 4: scared to take this story.
32:29
Speaker 2: To be your only thing. I was black. I know
32:31
Speaker 2: you're black, but now we appreciate you Dominican. So I
32:35
Speaker 2: am black. I'm not Dominican, but thank you. No, but
32:38
Speaker 2: thank thank you and good luck. We wish you the best,
32:40
Speaker 2: lucky and keep us a breast. Like I said, like,
32:42
Speaker 2: let us know what's going on. Because I'm sure, just
32:44
Speaker 2: like what the city is doing it to you, I'm
32:46
Speaker 2: sure the city is doing somebody else out there, and
32:49
Speaker 2: you can be able to guide them of what to do,
32:51
Speaker 2: and hopefully you know you can save your your family, property,
32:54
Speaker 2: your generational All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is Zoe.
32:57
Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wait that ass up
33:00
Speaker 2: Earth in the morning, Breakfast Club
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Speaker 4: Mhm